Apple Spice Cake
2 cups flour
2 cups sugar
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon cloves
1/2 teaspoon allspice
1 1/3 cup vegetable oil
4 eggs
2 cups grated apples (I used Golden Delicious)
2 cups applesauce
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 9x13 inch pan with cooking spray.
In a large mixing bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, cloves, oil and eggs. Mix on low until ingredients come together then increase speed to medium. Mix for 2 minutes.
Stir in grated apples and applesauce.
Pour batter into prepared pan and bake for 45 - 50 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.
Allow cake to cool then frost.
Frosting for cake:
1/2 cup butter ~ softened
1 8-ounce package cream cheese ~ softened
1 tablespoon cinnamon
2 - 3 cups powdered sugar
A little milk to thin frosting, if needed.
Combine butter and cream cheese in a mixing bowl.
Add powdered sugar and cinnamon and mix on low to combine, adding a few tablespoons of milk to thin and create a spreadable frosting.
Frost cooled cake.
Our ingredients.
Mix the flour, sugar, eggs, spices,
baking soda, oil and salt until combined.
Stir in the applesauce and the grated apples.
Pour batter into the prepared pan.
Bake!
For the frosting:
Combine the butter and cream cheese.
Then add the powdered sugar and the cinnamon.
A little milk...
..to make it spreadable.
Then spread.
Then eat! Moist and delicious!
